BurdaStyle Sewing Vintage Modern Contest Finalists

BurdaStyle Sewing Vintage Modern Contest 2013

We have compiled this gallery of the 20 finalists and it is now up to you all to vote for the winners! Please click on a slide’s project link to read and view more information on each entry. You may vote for multiple finalists but are limited to one vote per finalist. The order of these slides was chosen at random. Note: Don’t vote for this slide.

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I love all the projects here and congrats to all the contestants. However, I would like to add to the thread as to the “sewing vintage new” in particular. I am so surprised by the lack of originality in some of the work made it to the top list. That’s just my opinion and I hope it isn’t in any way a harsh comment but the only project that has had a really cool twist on vintage is “Mahaila’s” dress. Very original and probably took some precious hours to make it look so outstanding. Perfectly fits the title yet hasn’t received as many votes as others. Of course opinions differ from person to person, that’s mine :) Still. nice job ladies and gents I wish I could sew this good!

When you click the “Vote” button the page will refresh to note the updated count and to display the “You have already voted” text underneath the button. This is displayed after your vote is submitted to remind you that you have already voted for that particular slide.

As the first slide reads:
You may vote for multiple finalists but are limited to one vote per finalist… Note: Don’t vote for [the first] slide.

If a slide reads “You have already voted” it means that your vote was accepted and you can no longer vote for that slide.

I agree that it is a bit frustrating the way that the images are presented. I second the option of having thumbnails for future competitions. I think presenting the images in a random order would also enable a more level playing field – meaning that everyone sees that images in a different order.

Would you consider showing a thumbnail gallery for other contests? Then one could just click on the thumbnail instead of having to go through all pictures before getting to the very last slide #21 to vote for it. It would save time. Thanks.

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This is a good suggestion, unfortunately we are unable to redesign our gallery for this contest. If you want to quickly jump to a later slide, click to the second slide and you will notice a page number (…page=2) appears in the URL, simply retype the slide number to which you would like to jump (…page=21).

You can also do this when viewing patterns in the Pattern Store or projects in the Project section.

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No worries, josephina. Click through the slideshow and resubmit your vote(s).

Your vote will be cast for the slide from which you click the pink vote button.

If we put a finalist for the first slide, they would have inevitably accumulated the most votes so we inserted a dummy slide. Unfortunately, we are unable to remove the vote button from the first slide. Hopefully this design flaw will be addressed before the next contest.

Macska is correct, this competition is not only for dresses, it is just that the majority of the entries were in fact, dresses. Tops, jackets, trousers etc are all equally valid entries.

The requirement for this contest was not to create a vintage style dress. The book offers 5 base patterns with both vintage and modern elements and encourages the user to create unique variations based off of these patterns.

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This is a gallery design flaw and we apologize for the confusion. Each individual slide has a vote button. When the vote button is clicked it will add your vote to the slide from which you clicked.

Because this is not always clear to voters the first slide inevitably accumulates the most votes. In order to make this as fair as possible we added the artwork or dummy slide to the beginning of the gallery. If you accidentally voted for the artwork you are still able to vote for one or more of the actual finalists, simply scroll through the slide show.

Again, we apologize for this and hope to have the gallery redesigned before the next contest.

I might put a few noses out of joint but here goes! I am often gobsmacked as how or why some projects make it and others don’t!
I thought there were better entries than what have made the 20 finalists. There were only a few outstanding projects and yes, I am surprised Darkhorse‘s entry didn’t make the short list also.
Good luck!

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